Essays on Female Labor Supply

encouragement. I am very grateful for having Guvenen as my main advisor, under his guidance, I felt confident in reaching my goals. In addition, Guvenen also supported emotionally when I needed encouragement to move on and to face new challenges; without his support this thesis would not be possible. I would also like to thank you my advisor, Christopher Phelan, for his support and assistance. Phelan’s precise guidance helped me to overcome difficulties in key moments during these five years. In addition, I would also like to thank my colleagues at the Public Workshop for all their comments and suggestions. I would also like to thank professors Alessandra Fogli and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull for their comments and feed-backs. In particular, Alessandra for our long conversations and for her guidance in key moments helping me navigate through the job market. In addition, I am also very grateful to my colleagues at Labor Workshop for all their comments and support. I would also like to take this opportunity to re-thank my advisors and mentors at IMPA Luciano Irineu de Castro Filho and Aloisio Araujo. Without Luciano’s guidance and encouragement at the early stages of my academic career I would never gone that far. I would also like to acknowledge that the staff at the University’s Department of Economics, especially Kara Kersteter and Caty Bach, provided support with adminis-trative tasks, allowing me to focus my attention on my academics. In addition, the staff at The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis also provided excellent assistance. More-over, I benefited tremendously from the exciting research environment at The Federal Reserver Bank of Minneapolis.